{
 "record_id": "CW-2001-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0447",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Kalaburagi Man and Another vs State of Karnataka and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kalaburagi Man and Another vs State of Karnataka and Others",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Kalaburagi",
 "district_at_time": "Gulbarga",
 "city_town": "Kalaburagi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Chowk Police Station and Station Bazar Police Station, Gulbarga",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Kalaburagi Man and Another vs State of Karnataka and Others",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (number not stated in reported text)",
 "citation": "ILR 2004 KAR 3052",
 "judges": [
  "V. Gopala Gowda"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2001-08-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2001,
 "incident_date": "1992-06-19",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Veerabhadrappa",
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Chowk PS, Gulbarga",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.1,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.81,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Veerabhadrappa",
   "display": "Veerabhadrappa (Assistant Sub-Inspector)"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Station Bazar PS, Gulbarga",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:named_only",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.92,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.07,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Station Bazar PS, Gulbarga"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kalaburagi man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1725699/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Kalaburagi man, who had demanded back Rs 25,000 paid for a promised job, was falsely implicated at the recipient's instance, illegally detained at Chowk PS from 16 May 1992, briefly escaped, was handed by the ASI to PSI, and died in the Station Bazar lock-up on 19 June 1992. On the undisputed COD report, the Karnataka High Court found month-long illegal detention without production before court in conspiracy with the complainant, and fixed tortious liability on the State. The court awarded the mother 2 lakh with 6 percent per annum interest from the date of illegal detention, ordered the State to recover proportionately from the guilty personnel, and directed disciplinary proceedings within four weeks. The pending Sessions trial against 22 charge-sheeted accused was left to proceed independently.",
 "summary_verified": "A Kalaburagi man, who had demanded back Rs 25,000 paid for a promised job, was falsely implicated at the recipient's instance, illegally detained at Chowk PS from 16 May 1992, briefly escaped, was handed by the ASI to PSI, and died in the Station Bazar lock-up on 19 June 1992. On the undisputed COD report, the Karnataka High Court found month-long illegal detention without production before court in conspiracy with the complainant, and fixed tortious liability on the State. The court awarded the mother 2 lakh with 6 percent per annum interest from the date of illegal detention, ordered the State to recover proportionately from the guilty personnel, and directed disciplinary proceedings within four weeks. The pending Sessions trial against 22 charge-sheeted accused was left to proceed independently.",
 "court_quote": "It is crystal clear that Veerabhadrappa, A.S.I., took the law into his own hands and kept a Kalaburagi man in illegal detention for more than a month without producing him before the concerned Court.",
 "court_quote_para": "5",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Rs 2 lakh plus 6% interest for month-long illegal detention and custodial death.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "tier_history": [
  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
 ],
 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Custodial death",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2001-08-18",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "ILR 2004 KAR 3052",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1725699/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-31"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-012",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}
